Includes bibliographical references and index

Peasant women's work in the context of marriage. Peasant women's contribution to the home economy in late Medieval England / Barbara A. Hanawalt -- The village ale-wife : women and brewing in fourteenth-century England / Judith M. Bennett -- Slaves and domestic servants. To town to serve : urban domestic slavery in Medieval Ragusa / Susan Mosher Stuard -- Women servants in Florence during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- Occupations related to female biology : wet nurses and midwives. Municipal wet nurses in fifteenth-century Montpellier / Leah L. Otis -- Early modern midwifery : a case study / Merry E. Wiesner -- Urban women in work and business. Women in business in Medieval Montpellier / Kathryn L. Reyerson -- Women's work in a market town : Exeter in the late fourteenth century / Maryanne Kowaleski -- Is there a decline in women's economic position in the sixteenth century? Women in the crafts in sixteenth-century Lyon / Natalie Zemon Davis

(cont.) Women, the family economy, and the structures of market production in cities of Northern Europe during the late Middle Ages / Martha C. Howell

xviii, 233 pages ; 25 cm

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